Art for the Heart

Mission - Through Art for the Heart, we provide a platform for teen artists to show off their amazing talents to the world. Featuring the best of teenage artists, we aim to change the way the public and teen artists look at art as more than a hobby and something special. Through a gallery that allows young artists to showcase and sell their work, we will help them achieve something greater with their talents.

Our Ask / Need: We would love to get this enterprise started by asking any teen artists who are interested to contact us either from the website or by email tojonathan.r.espinosa@gmail.com.

Art In Our Youth

Mission - To allow youth to express creativity, no matter what situation they are in.

Our Ask / Need: I ask you all to spread the word! Any donation helps. We are currently collecting gently used and new: crayons, markers, colored pencils, paper, note books, construction paper, scissors, pens, pencils, and more!

Be Yourself

Mission- To give support and a feeling of inclusiveness to transgender and non-gender conforming high school students through volunteering at animal shelters and meet and greets.

Vision - To have less transgender and non-gender conforming teenagers committing suicide and having them realize that there are people there to support them through whatever it is they are going through and to raise their confidence and image of themselves.

I want to give transgender and non-gender conforming teenagers a place to speak their minds and create friendships that will hopefully last them a lifetime.

Beyond Books

Mission - The Beyond Book’s: Girl’s Summer is a program for high school girls who want to meet to other young women in their communities while reading inspiring and moving novels by powerful female writers.

Vision - By providing a safe environment, the hope of this project is to create a safe space where young girls can grow both as readers and as the world’s future change makers. We hope to inspire each and every girl and learn from each other so that we can go out into the world and make a difference.

Beyond the Labels

Mission - By promoting American made fashion brands it will reduce the number of sweatshops in other countries. Believing that some Americans are unaware of the treatment the the people working in sweatshops receive. I believe that as a nation that has strong opinions on liberty and justice that helping other countries reach the same ideas. By helping them reduce the number of sweatshops in other countries, it will benefit the people that work in those horrible conditions.

Vision - to inform people that there are many great options on clothing brands that are made in America.

The Brave: Untold Stories

Mission - To create a book that will share many anecdotal messages from the military personnel themselves in order to provide the American public with an authentic view of what they endure while overseas.

Vision - A society where connections between soldiers and citizens are genuine and sustained.

Our Ask / Need: Connections to military personnel who would potentially be interested in contributing to our enterprise. We need as many military personnel to submit as possible.

Chicas del Barrio

Mission - Our mission is to create a social platform and apparel for young Chicanos where they can retain their sense of culture and feel connected with their roots. Also, to empower Chicanos to own their history and be prideful.

Vision - Our vision is for people in our community to feel empowered of their roots.

We want to buy clothing items and paint things such as quotes, and paintings on them that depict what it means to live in Barrio Logan. We hope to encourage Chicanos in this community, and other communities, to be inspired by their roots and where they come from.

Determined World Action

Mission - to engage our youth in assemblies and inform them of our world's problems and how we can make the world a better place by working together to solve all it's problems.

Vision - our vision is to have all of St. Louis schools and eventually every school in world to have a DWA week where they show the kids our website and the things they could do to improve themself or help the lifes of our planet and others.

I want to work towards gaining world peace or in this case world engagement- where the world's inhabitants work together and among each other peacefully.

Embrace

Mission - Feeling stuck in your life is a feeling that is difficult to move past. Some opportunities seem impossible to reach, and Embrace is here to inspire people to let go of their insecurities and try something new. Embrace is dedicated to showing people how ton let go of their fears and doubts, and take a new risk in life. We travel around interviewing people and shooting short videos. In these videos people share their stories of how they embraced themselves and accomplished something new.

Embrace is dedicated to helping other individuals with their self-confidence. We tell stories of others to inspire people to take risks and try new experiences. We want to help people to gain a higher confidence within themselves in where, they are able to be outgoing and comfortable with who they are as an individual.

Our Ask / Need: We need people to follow us on Instagram in order to become aware of what we do. Embrace is very different than any other body positive or inspirational account because we reach out to everyone of all genders and all ages.

The support that we need from our community is to be acknowledge more, in the sense that, more people to be aware of our enterprise. We also need brands to help us fund for our enterprise so that it can grow.

Currently in its 2nd year, Embrace is focused on providing redesigned "embracelets" in partnership with Pura Vida.

Focus

Mission - My mission is to help people FOCUS on working on themselves instead of looking on the flaws of others. We'd like to motivate people to be who they want to be and in that way help others to let them be and not be judge or undervalued for who they are. You Do You, I'll Do Me.

Our Ask / Need: Support by buying my product, and get invitations to places where I could promote and sell my hats.

The Good Neighbor

Mission - Our mission is to ensure that every individual including those who live near or below the federal poverty line have a welcoming experience in our store when buying donated clothing at a very affordable price.

Our Ask / Need: I don't have a minimum ask of investment/donation. I need support to advertise my Business.

Hexi-Gon

Mission - To create the unlimited-portable-charger which generates electricity with the fusion of a re-deigned small generator and magnets we have achieved to create the first self-propellant portable charger we can give it more applications such as a unlimited light source for those that live in 3rd world as a light source, emergency electrical source for small devices such as radio, phone.

Vision - To start a company that would serve as a role model dedicated to crate innovations that benefits humanity with a balanced harmony

Hula Rula Entertainment

Mission - My mission is to not only provide a fun and pressure free, physical activity to elementary school kids, but to also teach life lessons through hula hooping. My goal is to teach every kid the importance of hard work, practice, fitness, sportsmanship, teamwork, and doing your best. I want to provide each kid with a role of responsibility and leadership. The hope is to give each kid a sense of confidence and self value. Most importantly, if the kids learn anything from my program, I would want it to be the value of encouragement. The program involves teamwork building, getting out of comfort zone, improving leadership skills, and creating a sense of self value. Also want to show the importance of encouraging others.

Our Ask / Need: I need support on my social media and for people interested in the course or interested in hiring me for an event or birthday party to contact me. Also suggestions for free venues in or around Wildwood, MO. to hold my classes. Please follow me on all my social medias. And share my Youtube.

Innovamedix

Mission - To connect all types of research and professionals to give an faster, more enhanced networking experience and allow researchers collaborate with a multitude of different research facilities, scientists, and experts.

Our Ask / Need - I need support from the community through researchers joining the Innovamedix network. It would also be very helpful if they could publicize it to their friends and contacts.

Lameroz

Mission - To provide middle school students with a better understanding of the positives of social media as well as the dangers that come from cyber bullying or irresponsible posting. Lameroz encourages youth to be friendly towards others via social media despite their differences.

Vision - A world where social media is a positive space for developing relationships and cyber bullying is no longer an issue.

Lowkey SD

LowKeySD is a millennial marketing and advertising agency that promotes local businesses in the San Diego area

Mission - To give teens an opportunity to promote local businesses in their POV to attract more customers and why they love living the San Diego lifestyle. We are millennials running a business to promote local businesses in San Diego California growing up in San Diego we've had a passion for the people and the places around us and we want to share that in a positive light through positive media.

Our Ask / Need: To share our business to acquire clientele. To give us teens to have an opportunity to promote the places we love going through a fun video through the marvelous San Diego.

Net4Seniors

Mission - To provide technology education to the senior community with a focus on learning to connect to friends, family and the world.

Vision - To provide quality, on-site technology education to senior communities in order to improve their connection to the world and reduce the effects of loneliness, depression and isolation that they may experience.

By interacting directly with our students, we are able to guide them through the use of computers, the internet and social apps in order to improve their quality of life. We will fulfill our mission by bringing our courses directly to our clients while continually sharing our program, acquiring new volunteers and building new teaching networks one community at a time.

The People You Walk By

Mission - To tell each and every single homeless story. How they feel about being a homeless.

Homeless individuals are one of the most marginalized groups in American society. They are constantly dehumanized and are treated differently than other people. The goal of our enterprise is to raise awareness and show the story of the this group of people, specifically in San Diego. We are doing this through the power of video by releasing a short documentary where we show the different perspectives of homeless individuals and residents living in the same area. Our goal is to start a movement which will eventually help our homeless population in San Diego.

Our Ask / Need - To raise awareness for our film and the large homeless issue facing San Diego.

Prototype Coding

Mission - Prototype Coding reuses old laptops to teach coding in afternoon classes at schools around San Diego county. Each student gets their own laptop to experiment with and complete tasks in a structured course designed to inspire them to create on their own.

Our Ask / Need: Any connections to schools looking for program such as this, and $100 for website development.

S2S Art

Mission - To empower teens to bring arts to youth that do not have access to it at their schools.

Vision - Communities where all youth, no matter what race or socioeconomic background have access to arts education.

S2S started in 2012 in response to a desire to address the lack of an arts program at a school located just a mile away from a prominent private school. The teens involved in S2S have created a curriculum and implemented the program at Kit Carson Elementary and Bayside Community Center. If you are interested in learning more about the impact S2S is having on arts education please email info@doingwit.org.

Set the Scene

Mission - At Set the Scene, we want 9-12 year old children to experience the theatre from the perspective of theatre set designers. We run classes in conjunction with children's theatres to design props and sets for their plays or musicals.

Shoes 4 Thought

Mission - Our mission is to provide encouragement and the necessary resources to help our struggling youth in anyway possible.

Our Ask / Need: What we need most importantly is recognition. We would like to get our name out there, so we can work on a larger scale. Sure money can help us with getting clothes together, but that isn't what our project is about. We would much rather receive clothes donations or volunteers to help us out. We are also looking to create partnerships as we want to expand our service for the St. Louis community.

Socially Presentable Teens

Mission - To help teens have a better presence on social media by knowing what and what not to put online and practicing what they learned on Frienedy. Frienedy is a private online community that will allow the teens in my group would be able to execute the etiquette that they will learn in the lunch and learns.

Vision - To help teens become more aware of what they post and tweet on social media.

STEAMing Forward

Vision - More teens going into a STEM field and filling the gap that is expanding in those fields of work and study.

My goal is to have teens see that STEM is not just there boring everyday science class, and to have them see that STEM can be fun. Through DIY projects posted on my site, teens will be able to see all the things they can do that are STEM related and fun.

The Unification Project

Mission - The Unification Project is run through Instagram and consists of occasional posts from teens that come from various backgrounds sharing their stories.

Vision - The ultimate goal is to reveal that all teens (no matter what race) have a lot in common and will break the chain of mental segregation in the St. Louis Community.

Teens will answer questions like, "What do you want people to know about you that may seem unusual to others? What do you like to do during your free time? What are your goals in life?" These answers to these questions will come from a diverse group of teens in the St. Louis area.

Value Venus

Mission - To distribute pads, tampons and other feminine necessities to women's homeless shelters around San Diego. We make bracelets for women to help other homeless woman gain access to sanitary products.

Our Ask / Need: We need support to buy our bracelets and spread awareness of our cause! We would love it if you could donate to help our cause, or tell your friends and family about what Value Venus is doing.

WhiteHat

Mission - WhiteHat is a platform to educate high school students about narratives that are overlooked and misunderstood in many cases, presented by people who tell their own stories and are given a voice.

Here at WhiteHat, we interview anyone, varying from prominent speakers to community members. WhiteHat examines the stories of anyone and everyone.

WhiteHat is a catalyst of social change and a source for the general population, especially high schoolers, to gain knowledge about the world around them.

Vision - A generation that is more tolerant, accepting, and understanding.

Our Ask / Need: WhiteHat needs the financial support from the community in order to continue its efforts to progress speaking events at a variety of high schools and in order to purchase more filming equipment.

Woman Speaks

Mission - Inspiring young Black women to reclaim their voices through a collective of Black feminist poetry, and their own works.

Our Ask / Need - As much social media and word of mouth support as possible. I think the political climate is ripe for Woman Speaks, its just a matter of as many young Black women being aware of my programs as possible.

Facebook: @WomanSpeaksPoetry

Instagram: @WomanSpeaksPoetry

Woman Speaks

Your Story

Mission - Your Story aims to improve the lives of young people by providing an outlet to share their personal experience to a large audience of their peers. By supplying a forum for discussion, we seek to afford cathartic relief for those sharing their story, as well as reduce anxiety, depression and feelings of alienation in the audience by showing them that they are not alone.

Our Ask / Need: We ask that our community support Your Story and contribute to the ongoing discussion.

Youth Impact Films

Mission - Youth Impact Films is an educational company that creates high-quality films for public interest enterprises at an affordable cost.

Our Ask / Need - I ask the community for connections to public interest enterprises that may be interested in having a video made. Also, if you know talented youth filmmakers we can always use a larger network.